Deuteronomy 28:11-13

11 "¹The LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your beast and in the produce of your ground, in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you.

12 "The LORD will open for you His good storehouse, the heavens, to give rain to your land in its season and to bless all the work of your hand; and ²you shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.

13 "³The LORD will make you the head and not the tail, and you only will be above, and you will not be underneath, if you listen to the commandments of the LORD your God, which I charge you today, to observe them carefully,

Deuteronomy 28:11-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO DEUTERONOMY 28

In this chapter Moses enlarges on the blessings and the curses which belong, the one to the doers, the other to the transgressors of the law; the blessings, De 28:1-14; the curses, some of which concern individual persons, others the whole nation and body of people, and that both under the former and present dispensations, and which had their fulfilment in their former captivities, and more especially in their present dispersion, De 28:15-68.

Cross References

• 1. Deuteronomy 28:4; Proverbs 10:22
• 2. Deuteronomy 23:20
• 3. Deuteronomy 28:1, 44

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "fruit"
• [b]. Or "womb"
• [c]. Lit "fruit"
• [d]. Lit "fruit"
• [e]. Lit "keep and do"